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Article #15Re: Dropping standards
From: Deep Fried Lettuce
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 06:37
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 06:37
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BMJ wrote: > Taenia Solium wrote: > > straydog <advocacy@sdf.lonestar.org> writes: > > > > > >>We, over on the newsgroup sci.research.careers, heard about this > >>thread and we get into serious debates and discussions about the > >>declining standards in the USA and I think its true. > > > > > >>Thresholds have > >>been lowered for grades, my wife was an adjunct prof at a local > >>community college and she was not allowed to give anyone less than a C > >>and she knew students that should not have passed. > > > > > > > > This is happening globally. > > > > Some of the kids in my son's law class ( at one of the elite Group of Eight universities) > > simply should not be there. > > > > But they will be permitted to pass and inflict themselves upon unsuspecting clients. > > That's because one of the purposes of a post-secondary institution is to > guarantee student success, whatever that's supposed to mean. I > concluded that to many of them, it's being amply rewarded for doing next > to nothing or playing the system to one's favour. > > It scares me to think that I might be crossing a bridge or entering a > building that some of them might have had a hand in designing. so why in the hell are the standards in this and education in general being ALLOWED to slip lower and lower evey few years? And as for marks why is it that grades are always artificially inflated not reflecting the true nature of a student's performance? Exactly who was the bizarre person that thought this would be a good idea? John
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X-Google-Thread: 10d632,694a043254ae7218 X-Google-Thread: f732f,694a043254ae7218 X-Google-Thread: f8886,8e003644a40cb3b3 X-Google-Thread: 10df0c,db63db42ab56e0c0 X-Google-Thread: 1083c4,4f67d992c458b285,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10d632,gidf732f,gidf8886,gid10df0c,gid1083c4,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: "Deep Fried Lettuce" <sittinginthepool@internode.on.net> Newsgroups: sci.stat.math,sci.stat.edu,sci.research.careers,aus.politics,aus.general Subject: Re: Dropping standards Date: 17 May 2005 23:37:04 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 57 Message-ID: <1116398224.808357.92540@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> References: <1115922962.400539.135900@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> <kk3881ljuv3ujgjiikb6npph5nntqcmhgn@4ax.com> <1115956264.008196.132030@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> <1115959934.335237.305400@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> <d62iv0$503k@odds.stat.purdue.edu> <Pine.NEB.4.62.0505131839420.3686@ukato.freeshell.org> <87mzqtm9mw.fsf_-_@kafka.homenet> <s8Aie.1398315$8l.642040@pd7tw1no> NNTP-Posting-Host: 150.101.64.162 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1116398232 29386 127.0.0.1 (18 May 2005 06:37:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 06:37:12 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <s8Aie.1398315$8l.642040@pd7tw1no> User-Agent: G2/0.2 Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=150.101.64.162; posting-account=vmj3Vg0AAADh0F4DSOUx7-SGpludBVvI